Volume 43, Number 12 · July 11, 1996
Stalin and the Jews
By Robert Conquest
Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in Stalin's Russia
by Gennadi Kostyrchenko
Prometheus Books, 333 pp., $24.95
Nepravedniy Sud: Posledniy Stalinskiy Rasstrel (The Unjust Trial: Stalin's Last Execution)
edited by V.P. Naumov
Moscow: Nauka Publishers
The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman
by John Garrard, by Carol Garrard
Free Press, 437 pp., $27.50
It has been just over half a century since the Holocaust. And we are told that many of those now in school in this country have only the vaguest notion of it. That sends one back to the realities, to the results of a lunatic criminality that still persists in different forms in our own day, back to the heart-rending eyewitness accounts, but even more to the large-scale works that examine, and as far as possible explain, how such horror could be enacted in Europe in the twentieth century. In particular we return to the three-volume 1985 edition of Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews, first published in 1961. But whatever can add further to our knowledge and understanding of the entire phenomenon is to be welcomed.
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